Results 1-20 of 24 for waste management speaker:John McGuinness

Report of Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motion (23 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: ...submissions. I want to point to the part of the report that refers to whistleblower Jonathan Sugarman, whose story has been well publicised and who worked for UniCredit under Banca d'Italia. He was a senior risk manager and came forward with a report to the Central Bank. He highlighted the errors in the bank and how it was trading recklessly. He has received no recognition for the role...

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

John McGuinness: ...gets done. Is that what we are doing? I have been here at various budgets and I have seen the health budget increased year on year with substantial amounts of money. How is that money being managed? In her contribution to this debate, Deputy Shortall is correct that we have to go back to how reform is treated in this country by this Government and by successive Governments. When we...

Future of Banking in Ireland: Statements (1 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: ...arose. My party colleagues were amused that the Taoiseach supported the motion, because I presume it was my motion, but he did. Therefore, we should be discussing in this House establishing the forum and wasting no time in bringing together all the stakeholders to discuss what might happen in the future. I mentioned the legacy issue but I omitted to mention Mr. Tony Lawlor, who came...

Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (19 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: ...Minister makes to increase the input of public funds to support students attending college. Some of the really bright students often cannot get to college and yet, through their own initiatives, manage to rise to the top. However, it is a battle when one does not have the qualifications behind one. I also welcome the amounts of money the Minister is giving to the universities to...

Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: .... The Minister increased significantly the money that the health services get, but it is going into the same structure, the same old way of doing business, and some of those senior people within the HSE who manage it are not fit for purpose. There are too many managers. The front line is the Band-Aid that holds it all together, and by the time the money gets down to the front line, the...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (19 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: ...not disagree with any of that, but I do disagree with the amount of money that universities are spending to achieve it, to keep their people safe and to look after their employees. There is evidence of significant waste in that sector, with money being spent on paintings or €13,000 being spent on retirement parties for individuals, while those in the sector who have made complaints...

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: ...like this should be avoided at all costs and we should learn from our mistakes. There is a reference in the Bill to measuring the consumption of water and to penalties for those who abuse the system or waste water. It will be interesting to see how that works for the many households that do not have a meter. Whether it is a guesstimate or someone who sits in a house to watch what people...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: ...to the job and maybe the Minister should get somebody else. He accused me of making a political statement. It was not. It was an honest-to-God statement regarding the fear and frustration I have for the management of the health services which I believe is out of control. Middle to senior management in the health services has no real direction. The system is held together by the nurses...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)

John McGuinness: Mr. McCarthy, you suggest it is systemic issue. That is a system failure but behind a system failure, is there not a person, an individual or a manager? Therefore, it is not a system failure but a failure of management. I refer to when one has a manager who understands the procurement process - and Mr. Watt constantly explains to the committee through his Department how significant it is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Correspondence dated 31 March 2015, from Mr. John Corcoran, is in regard to waste of public money in property transactions by the Office of Public Works, OPW. This is to be noted and forwarded to the OPW for a response on the matters raised. This matter was raised through an advertisement in a magazine, which set out several issues and concerns. We will note it but there is no harm in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 May 2015)

John McGuinness: ...We can then discuss it and members can decide on recommendations, such as the one Deputy Deasy is putting forward. It is clear, in the context of all these reports, that there is a crisis in the management of the HSE. No political system or Minister could manage the HSE the way it is. It will appear before the Joint Committee on Health and Children this morning. The stonewalling that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015)

John McGuinness: ...the ability of their audit team to do their job. I am saying it would be far more beneficial, in the context of the reform of the State, and reforms that his Department is engaged in, to adopt a management tool. The Department should say to the Minister that he should do so. A sum of €6 billion is allocated to local government. I am not saying that the allocation is not...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jan 2014)

John McGuinness: ...on the issues raised. Correspondence dated 22 January 2014 was received from Josephine Feehily of the Revenue Commissioners regarding a reply to correspondence from an anonymous source regarding a waste of money in the Revenue Commissioners' customs and excise division, to be noted. No. 3B.3 is dated 24 January 2014 from Mr. Ray Mitchell regarding Stewarts Hospital, Palmerstown, to be...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

John McGuinness: ...uncontrollable. In April the HSE applied to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to have an information technology system built in that would give it all of the facts, figures and management tools it wanted. This application has not yet been dealt with or approved. What is counted is done. Either the HSE or the Government is not willing to count what is being done and as a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2013)

John McGuinness: ...is to review all the papers and if there is an issue that requires further investigation he can do so. No. 3B.13, correspondence dated 20 August 2013 from Mr. Eugene Mitchell, Ballinasloe, County Galway, on flooding in Ballinasloe and alleged waste of public money by Galway County Council. It is to be noted. While this is primarily a matter for the local authority, funding was provided...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: This brings me to another point. I am shocked by the lack of information being provided. In regard to the questions on the management of schemes, which were reasonable, I ask that we get the information requested, including information from CIE, at the earliest opportunity. This needs to be resolved and some sort of audit will have to be conducted into the expenditure of €76 million...

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jan 2013)

John McGuinness: ...It involves a number of officials and bureaucrats meeting Members in an office with one intention, that is, to whitewash any point raised by these Members. It is a case of giving them a bum steer and wasting their time. The greatest amount of time and money is being wasted by the group of officials that attend those meetings because they have no intention of giving the Minister the answer...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)

John McGuinness: ...General will not make an opening statement. However, I wish to put today's meeting in context. In that regard, I shall read the following statement. We are resuming our examination today of the management of the HSE Vote which was a subject matter of our meeting on 28 June 2012. The issue of Vote management and cost containment was dealt with by the Comptroller and Auditor General in...

Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 May 2012)

John McGuinness: ...25 years. In addition, my father spent 50 years before me and with me on that council and I shared 25 of those years with him. I am familiar with local government but rarely have seen a county manager being held to account. This is not because county councillors are unable to so do but because time and effort must go into it. This is similar to the time and effort I put into this Bill....

Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 May 2012)

John McGuinness: ...in Sligo, where the cats eyes must be made of diamonds. That is just one instance where the Committee of Public Accounts needs to be able to investigate to ensure that public moneys are not being wasted. There may be a valid reason for the divergence but it is hard to imagine that the taxpayer is getting value for money from Sligo County Council. It is in the interest of local...